this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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I think the only solution is the Cambridge exam system.
The only grade they get is at the final written exam. all other assignments and tests are formative, to see if they are on track or to practice skills... This way it does not matter if a student cheats in those assignments, they only hurt themselves. Sorry for the final exam stress though.
A significant percentage of my classes at University were a midterm and final, or just a final. I thought they worked just fine.
I took three history classes while I was in college. It's been a while, but I recall most of them having a paper or two and those papers counting for a pretty big chunk of you grade. The author of the article is a history teacher, so essays make some amount of sense.
My engineering classes were basically as you described.
Because engineers need to get it done the first time. No room for bullshit.
I had a couple classes in college where the grade was 8% homework, 42% midterm, and 42% final exam. Feels a bit more balanced
I think we should also be adjusting the criteria we use for grading. Information accuracy should be weighted far more heavily, and spelling/grammar being de-prioritized. AI can correct bad spelling and grammar, but it's terrible for information accuracy
What were the other 8 percent?
My math undergrad classes were largely like that, too, and that was before there were smartphone solver apps, let alone "AI". A typical grade breakdown was 10% assignments, 30% midterm, 60% final in first and second year. Then in third and fourth year, it was entirely midterm + final.
They gave a few marks for assignments in lower years since high schoolers often come to them thinking the only things that are important are grades, so won't practice unless it's for marks. If you haven't figured out that practice is important by third year...
And agreed re: changing the focus of our assessment, just like memorizing facts for history "trivia-style" assessment should no longer be used by anyone in a post-search Web 2.0 world. (Although it was never good assessment, regardless.)
also bad at synthesizing new ideas.. however, it is likely that future models will be better at those things.
then whole situation sucks and I'm glad I'm out of uni.
Except this is terrible for a lot of people and then only measures how well people do at taking tests.
I'm open to alternatives that can't be chatgtped. tech bros destroyed them all